Creating the key pair

Navigate to the directory where you saved the puttygen.exe file and open it. The 'PuTTY Key Generator' window displays.

On the bottom right, click the 'Generate' button.

Follow the instructions and move your mouse in the blank area to generate random data.

Click the 'Save public key' button to save a modified version of the public key. Please note that this public key file can not be imported into the DreamCompute dashboard as it is not properly formatted.

Click the 'Save private key' button to save the .ppk (PuTTY Private Key File) file for use with PuTTY later.

Copy the text in the box titled 'Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file:'

It's recommended that you paste this into a blank notepad file on your computer to ensure you have a copy saved. Otherwise, follow the instructions below to paste/import it directly into your DreamCompute dashboard.